Lilly Courses with Ethics/Service Integration

Courses for 2005 - 2006

Religion 344. Religion and Violence
This course offers historical overviews and religious and theological analyses of occurrences of religiously-mandated or justified violence within the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions. Also, this study investigates how religious identity and sense of "vocation," both personal and communal, facilitate or impede religious violence. (Credit, full course.) Parker

Political Science 315. Global Migration
An investigation of concerns related to global migration, such as asylum-seeking, refugees, human trafficking, migrant labor, political and cultural integration, and citizenship. Students examine the multiple factors that lead or force people to move and the politics and policies of immigration and integration in receiving countries such as Europe and the United States. Prerequisite: None. (Credit, full course.) Swimelar

Political Science 410. The Politics of Poverty
An introduction to the study of a significant social problem: poverty. Course topics include the development of an economic underclass in the United States and the programmatic response of government, the feminization of poverty, the causes of persistent rural and urban poverty, race and poverty in the South, and the connections between poverty in the U.S. and the international trade regime. Prerequisite: None. (Credit, full course.) Schneider

 

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